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SubjectRe: short display with 2.1.132-ac3, matroxfb and XF86_SVGA 3.3.3

Linus Torvalds writes:
> On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

>> It's the other way round: the X server can't live with the frame
>> buffer console. It can live with the text console only.
>
> I know that didn't use to be true - I could start a X server from within
> another X server, and the second X server would restore the _graphics_
> mode of the first one.

> But I suspect there is some GGI mentality somewhere - people thinking that
> all graphics should be done by the fb layer and thus don't even _want_ to
> consider X working. And such mentality is worse than a small bug, I'm
> afraid, as it tends to mean that the thing never gets fixed.

It is hard to understand why you would say this. Do you believe
that XFree86 can change and restore a graphics mode on any card?
If so, I can see why you might hate GGI.

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